34 STOEIES OF THE TEMPLE. 



Fem-ma, from ferre, TO BEAR and UPHOLD, as the 

 House is upborne or upheld by its Foundation ; and 

 as Form is figuratively upheld and manifested or 

 made into Phenomena by Substance or Noumenon. 

 Substance-and-Forra then combine to make the To- 

 tality and Proceedent Existence of Things ; and so of 

 Thing Universal : or of the Universe. 



53. Nature, Science and Art, as Substance, Form 

 and Movement, are, therefore, like 1. The Foundation, 

 2. The Superstructure, and 3. The Use or Occupancy 

 (lapping back upon and including its construction) 

 of an Edifice. The Universe is that Edifice, in its 

 Integrality, or in the Unity of these Three Consti- 

 tuent Aspects, Entities or Terms. The Universe is, 

 therefore, primarily and necessarily a Tri-Unity, of 

 which Nature, Science and Art are the Three Grand 

 Factors, Stages, or Determinate Particulars; which 

 was the point to be established. We proceed in 

 thought from the Foundation of the Edifice upward 

 to the Dome or Apex; as ike Natural or Primitive 

 Order of our thoughts on the subject ; which, sub- 

 sequently, we reverse, or " invert " in descending. This 

 procedure of the thought may be contracted to the 

 conception of a mere line, and the successive Stories 

 or Stages of the Edifice may be represented to the 

 imagination along this line. 



54. As every Line and every Career, that of Uni- 

 versal Evolution as well, has, in our ordinary concep- 

 tion, a Beginning, a Middle and an End, so, if a Line, 

 as the First Type of Procedure or On-Going, be as- 

 sumed in Abstract Thought, and be made to occupy 



